Ford, Derek R., PhD

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Assistant Professor of Education Studies and Director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program (spring term)

Derek is an educational theorist who teaches classes in philosophy and history of education. He received his PhD in cultural foundations of education from Syracuse University (2015). His research examines the educational logics at work in political, economic, and social systems, what educational theory can offer contemporary political movements, and how education can help us re-imagine and re-enact our ways of being-together.

He is currently assistant editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, which he works on with an education studies student intern.

He has written and edited eight books and published in a variety of journals. Bloomsbury just published his latest book, Politics and pedagogy in the 'post-truth' era: Insurgent philosophy and praxis. His next book, due out through Brill in 2019, is the edited volume, Keywords in radical philosophy and education. Three education studies students worked as editorial assistants on the book. His cv is here.